Literature Club

The last wish

First of all, sorry for my bad english, I am french, reading mainly french bools and your eyes gonna bleed reading this comment...
The book I am reading and I have almost finished is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society written by Mary Ann Shaffer and her niece, Annie Barrows. It's an epistolary novel, I like discovering the characters within the eyes of other characters. They are wirtting snail mails (they are a bit like these digital comments ancestors). The main character of this book is the island of Guernsey during and just after the second war. The plot is a writer that wants to write a book on it. But you probably know this because a movie will shortly be released. I am asking myself wether or not I will gonna see it because the main interest of this book lies in the mood. The characters are most of all gentle and bad things with the war let their "gentleness" shine stronger... The island beauty is the antithesis of the atrocities of the war, and it makes war looks like a strange and stupid theater. Juliet the writer has just gone to the island at the start of the part 2, and at the point I am reading she learns the death of the creator of the Society Elizabeth who is a pure angel...
I am growing 3 kids and reading and sometimes playing are for me a way to appreciate the daily routine even better.
Thanks for reading me whatever you decide !

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. The movie was unexpectedly one of the best I've seen recently so when I heard the book has some major differences I had to see for myself. It was interesting in a different way, and I'm glad both exist. I'd recommend if you like things mysterious and dreamlike.

Hi just wondering why I was kicked? I checked my latest giveaways and haven't won anything from the group (I freaked out though cause I'm not usually in groups that have specific rules and thought I must have won and forgot to say about what book I read recently) Thank you :)

I'm Lithuanian that emigrated to Sweden, and since I speak mostly Swedish/English now, I want to not forget my native language, so I started to read more and more lithuanian poets and books, yesterday I've finished Lost Birds, Birute Putrius, 2015

My last book was The Shining, by Stephen King. Really good for horror enthusiasts and much better than the movie. If you didn't know already, it's about a family moving over the winter to some hotel to take care of it and strange things begin to happen there..

I just leave it here where are those keys coming from-train

Oh gods, I am really behind on my reading. A few years back, I used to visit my public library on a weekly basis and check out a handful of books and plow through them. Not so much in the past couple of years as one, I don't have much time to get over to that side of town these days, and two, ever since getting a gaming PC three years ago, I find it difficult to tear myself away from my Steam Library and YouTube to do much else. I downloaded the Overdrive app on my phone a few months ago which lets me check out ebooks from my public library and I've actually managed to read a few books here and there.

Last one I got through was an old favorite: Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. I love a good murder mystery, and the use of symbology and all the various puzzles and riddles that Robert Langdon has to face really appeals to me. I should go back and read the rest again.

While doing some housecleaning yesterday, I did come across my old copy of the Hobbit. I don't think I ever finished it because while I absolutely love the world and characters that Tolkien has built in Middle Earth, I've always had difficulty trying to wrap my mind around his writing style. I think I'm gonna give it another try.

I like the whole idea of this group. Hopefully, I can find some good recommendations here.

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Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Not sure if I understand everything he wrote in that book (or in his book Antifragility either), but I like his views on the world, his life philosophy, the way he approaches his life with a consistent view of probabilities. He and I come from the same kind of background which probably shaped the way we think. He's the only author I've found with a similar thinking process so I'm pretty happy about saving myself many years of introspection and reading where his thoughts brought him at his age. I'm gonna have to read it again because I didn't take notes the first time around.

I'm two books into Icerigger trilogy by Alan Dean Foster. It was featured in one of Humble book bundles.
It's a solid science fiction from 1970s about unlikely group of survivors crashed into ice covered planet inhabited by cat-like bi-pedal aliens. The books focus on adventure and action. They are solid 7/10. There is certain lack of depth in the story though, so probably I would've appreciated these novels more when I was a teenager ;)

P.S. I'm Tupungato in Steam.

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The Pillars of The Earth, best book I have ever read, and not even in my native language. I watched the series when I was young ( series are old af) and the game... pfff , book better than both together.

Flowers for Algernon. The book which i want to give the yonger me.

The last book I read was Tales From the Radiation Age by Jason Sheehan. Wonderful and captivating little dystopian post apocalyptic scifi novel, once you first get used to the unusual writing style. :) The writer likes to use big long words I picked this one on Kindle, though I have around ~40 paperback books at home, some still waiting to be read. :3

Anyway I hope I qualify and would like to participate in the group and talk about books. Nice to have a little Book Club on Steam. :D

I read some of Kafka works recently, like 'In the Penal Colony' and 'The Metamorphosis'.

I finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep not that long ago. I read the Norwegian translation and i got the feeling that the translation was pretty bad. It's a good story, though! Cool to see where Blade Runner started.

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Currently reading The Communist Manifesto. What can I say? It's an interesting perspective into the earlier years of socialism.
Been listening to Foundation by Isaac Asimov as I go to sleep. Not far in yet to give an opinion. I have one of the other books from the series in hardback form somewhere but want to read/listen in order.

Last book I finished was "Space Odyssey: 2001". All I can say is goddamn read the book, if you liked the film the book will tell you what it's all about instead of all the interpretations people make.

Foundation series by Asimov, I'm at 4th book currently. there are a lot of characters and each book has 2 eras in which history of the fall and rise of galactic empire is told. Quite a nice read for both SF an politics fans.

Right now im reading Daylight War (Demon Cycle series) from Peter V. Brett.
Is a very good book, nice mix of fantasy and post apocaliptic, characters are very interesting and grim in the same way i loved the characters in the Black Company saga from Glen Cook D:

Rereading The Three-Body Problem for a fourth time. I am just amazed by the world that is constructed in the books.
Next on the list: Philip K. Dick's book, starting Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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